Why there’s always someone better and how to deal with it
There’s always someone better than you. Your competitiors will improve. If you’re not open to change, you will be changed. Find out what all this has to do with women playing soccer.
There’s always someone better than you. Your competitiors will improve. If you’re not open to change, you will be changed. Find out what all this has to do with women playing soccer.
Just like in the NFL, business “drafts” (or call it recruiting) are built on stats and standards as well. Good grades, number of years of experience, etc.
Why these standards become irrelevant, what this means to you and how to use social media to profit from it.
This is to motivate us. To ask ourselves why we are doing what we are doing. To get back the joy. And it’s about how to best throw golf clubs…
My New Year’s wishes to you and some thought on what to do when in a slump.
Developing people is in nearly no case giving you the best short term performance, but on the long run it will pay. Examples from youth soccer and college football tell us how.
While teams in the big European soccer leagues play to qualify for the European Cup, teams in lower divisions don’t have that kind of motivation. While top management sits in fancy global meetings, work from those in lower management is less recognized and less incentivized. But why not create a “European Cup” for lower divisions?
What to do when you’re trailing late in the game, knowing that you will lose? Gretchen Rubin, author of “The Happiness Project”, recommends not letting yourself off the hook when you’re down. It’s all about dignity, self-confidence and momentum – in sports and in business.
Basketball coaching legend John Wooden died. His definition of success was: “Piece of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable”. What a great inspiration: Do the best of which you’re capable, don’t worry about others and be patient.
Quite a remarkable decision from the soccer world organization FIFA: They will not introduce any additional referees or technology to help referees at the upcoming World Cup 2010 in South Africa. That decision came only a few days after French striker Thierry Henry clearly played a ball with his hand, leading to the decisive goal […]
Last night, Liverool FC dropped out of this year’s UEFA Champions League – one of the most prestigious trophies to win in international club soccer. That exit in the group stage came as a surprise because over the last five years they always made it to the eliminatory rounds, winning the cup once in 2005 […]